“These reports are ... aimed at tarnishing the good name of my father who was then the Sarawak chief minister and the head of Barisan Nasional in Sarawak,” he said in reference to Sarawak governor Tun Taib Mahmud.

Mahmud Abu Bekir named Claire Rewcastle Brown of the Sarawak Report, Bruno Manser Fund, Cullen Johnson and his wife who are now in jail, Pakatan Rakyat leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Shahnaz and her lawyers, as those allegedly orchestrating to change the political landscape of Sarawak.

Earlier, Mahmud told the court that it did not make sense for his ex-wife to claim that Taib was the richest man in Malaysia. He also denied that his earnings and properties were worth billions of ringgit. — The Malaysian Insider

This article first appeared in The Edge Financial Daily, on September 3, 2014.